RK Ventures Group

Total investments

8

Average round size

18M

Portfolio companies

5

Rounds per year

0.36

Follow on index

0.38

Exits

3

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
Therapeutic DevicesBiotechnologyOther Devices and SuppliesHealth CareHospitalRoboticsMedical DevicePharmaceuticalTherapeuticsDiabetes

Summary

RK Ventures Group is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The main department of described VC is located in the New York. The company was established in North America in United States.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2010. The fund is generally included in less than 2 deals every year. Opposing the other organizations, this RK Ventures Group works on 4 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The top activity for fund was in 2017.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Therapeutics, Biotechnology. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Xenex, Respicardia, Redpoint Bio For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the RK Ventures Group, startups are often financed by BioAdvance, Pfizer Venture Investments, Lilly Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Pfizer Venture Investments, Lilly Ventures, BioAdvance. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Safeguard Scientifics, Pfizer Venture Investments, Lilly Ventures.

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
8
Lead investments
0
Exits
3
Rounds per year
0.36
Follow on index
0.38
Investments by industry
  • Health Care (4)
  • Biotechnology (4)
  • Medical Device (3)
  • Diabetes (3)
  • Pharmaceutical (3)
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Investments by region
  • United States (7)
  • India (1)
Peak activity year
2007

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
15
Avg. valuation at time of investment
160M
Group Appearance index
1.00
Avg. company exit year
10
Avg. multiplicator
3.57

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Avid Radiopharmaceuticals 05 Jan 2006 Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Diabetes Early Stage Venture 8M United States, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

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